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Title: Uproar as Maryland Pre-teen Expresses Gay Pride at School
Post by: Natasha on October 02, 2008, 01:38:25 PM
Uproar as Maryland Pre-teen Expresses Gay Pride at School

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=81207 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=81207)
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Boston Contributor
Wednesday Oct 1, 2008

A seventh-grade student at a Maryland school has tested the waters
at the school by wearing T-shirts bearing a gay equality message.

According to a Web site of Maryland newspapers, Gazette.com Kaz
Felix-Hawver,a student at Eastern Middle School, has on several
occasions worn T-shirts emblazoned with home-made messages of
support for the GLBT community.

Felix-Hawver, a resident of Kensington who says he is bisexual, also
has a pink button-down shirt with the words "Homosexuals, lesbians,
bisexuals, gays, transgenders: All are cool with me," on the back